Shaving composition



Patented Dec. 19, 1933 1,940,026

UNITED" STATES PATENT OFFICE SHAVING COMPOSITION Robert Fol-day Smith, Montreal, Quebec, Canada No Drawing. Application January 4, 1930 Serial No. 418,656

3 Claims. (Cl. 87-5) This invention relates to compositions, either but preferably I employ between 6 and in the form of a solid or a cream, which are The amount of water in the mixture while adapted to facilitate the removal of hair by preferably in excess of 10%, may vary within a shaving, due to the fact that they effect a sofconsiderable range, such as is now customary 5 tening of the hair so that there is less tendency in shaving soap cakes, paste and powders. to dull the razor blade, and that they also The amount of talc is preferably between 10% support the hair so that the blade attacks and and by weight of the shaving composition, severs the hair follicles at the base thereof withthessame being added to the liquid mixture of out there being any tendency for the blade to the other ingredients while in a fine pulverulent m glide over the hairs without properly cutting condition and being intimately incorporated as them. Heretofore for shaving purposes, it has therewith by stirring. However, while such a been customary to employ shaving compounds tale is an advantageous ingredient of shaving containing an active ingredient soap, and more compositions generally, as set forth in my Patparticularly a potash soap, in order to effect ent No. 1,667,993, its use in the herein described 15 this softening of the hair so as not to dull the composition is not essential and the same may be edge of the razor blade too much. To a limomitted entirely if desired. ited extent, the foam produced by the latherim; My improved composition not only facilitates pe n v s a to pp the a but the shaving operation for the reasons above exu pp n ac was a the most but plained, but also the lather is far less evanescent 2 momentary andlimited. and therefore persists for much longer periods '26 y v a o s av d o the discovery than ordinary lather. Furthermore, when the that ie d d its a such for example composition is washed from the face, the skin as the sodium and Potassium salts thereof, net is left in a clean, freshened and velvety condi- 5 m 'y and thereby soften h fatty tion and all hairs are uniformly severed at the 25 terial or oils in the hair far better than soap, very base t ut O g to the high Viscosity of their selll- Various additional ingredients other than t s, Possess in addition the Property 01 creetthose above mentioned may be incorporated in s in conjunction with seep. y fi and the mixture containing alginic acid or the salts as lather, and thus are especially suited '0 thereof without departing from the spirit of my 30 use in the shav g pe a o invention as embraced within the scope of the The following are examples of compositions appended, claims,

embodying my invention:- Having thus described my invention, what I 60 Pa ts O ap (or potash soap) claim and desire to obtain by United States Let- 20 alginate of soda 7 solution te -s Patent 13: 5 20, talc (soapstone) 1. A shaving composition comprising as the 20 water I major ingredient thereof a lathering soap and or again: containing minor percentages of a salt of alginlc 60 parts of soap (or potash soap) acid, of an inert inorganic filler of a slippery 15 alginate of soda 7%% solution nature and of water, said composition being 40 30 talc (soapstone) adapted to form a lather of unusual persistence 26 water and being without objectionable action upon the Various different proportions of ingredients skin of a human face and also being adapted to may be employed other than those above set leave the skin in a clean fresh and velvety conforth, but the essential features of the invention dition after the shaving operation is completed,

45 are the employment of the soluble salts of alas well as to assist in effecting the uniform sevginic acid or even alginic acid itself, as sodium erance of the hairs at the base thereof by the alginate or potassium or other soluble salt, simrazor blade in the shaving operation. pie or double salt of alginic acid capable of 2. A shaving soap composition comprising in successful substitution for the sodium alginate excess of 50 parts of a potash soap, a small 50 in my improved composition, but the proporamount of a salt alginic acid in excess of 10 tions of alginate of soda or its equivalent in parts of an inert filler of soap stone and in alginic acid or other salts thereof calculated, excess of 10% of water, said composition being should not be less than an amount which adapted to'form a lather of unusual persistence is necessary to exert a noticeable improvement and being without objectionable action upon the 55 in the lathering properties of the composition, skin of a human face and also beng adapted to no sition being adapted to form a lather of unusual persistence and being without objectionable action upon the skin of a human face and also being adapted to leave the skin in a clean fresh and velvety condition after the shaving operation is completed, as well as to assist in effecting the uniform severance of the hairs at the base thereof by the razor blade in the shaving operation.

ROBERT FORDAY SMITH. 

